Martin Kottbusch
Project Lead - Product Management
Experience
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
5 monthsProject Lead - Product Management
heycar Group
- Designed and built frontstage eCommerce journeys and supporting backstage customer journeys
- Requirements creation and management for all product aspects: Core user experience (online), supporting business processes and service design (online, offline and hybrid)
- Project management for country rollouts, aligning business, product and tech workstreams to assure timely delivery
- Business strategy, commercial/revenue model, rollout planning
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 3 monthsSenior Product Manager
MVP Factory
- Product management lead working with MVP Factory team on a Personal Finance Management and Wellbeing App
- Exploration and validation of product and user experience concept
- Target group refinement, user journey mapping, prototyping and concept testing, product vision and roadmap
- Business model validation and monetization options
- Technical product concept - target architecture, prioritization and development team setup
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
1 year 11 monthsChief Product Officer
kollex GmbH
- Leading a team of designers (UX/UI) and product managers
- Design and development of a B2B platform product for the food and beverage market, merging 2 distinctive apps into 1
- Managing the overall product: Mobile & Web Apps used by close to 100 merchants with thousands of B2B customers
- Established the kollex Product Innovation Lab, introduced innovation and ideation methods
- Initially freelance product and venture coach introducing squads, agile methods, product roadmap, processes & planning
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
1 yearProduct and Venture Coach
Körber Digital
- Supported POs and venture teams at early stages, guiding them from ideation phase (value innovation discovery) to MVP
- Design and MVP launch of a digital process twin for production optimization based on algorithms which predict settings
- Concept design, test and validation of a digital marketplace and trading platform for the tissue industry
- MVP concept and launch of an augmented reality solution for pharma producers, a self-improving solution learning from data
- UX strategy, design and product launch of a sensor data enabled web application for producers, helping them to reduce waste, understand production issues and receive concrete recommendations
May 2016 - Sep 2018
2 years 5 monthsHead of Product
Smartfrog
- Created an IoT platform and devices for the connected home with a team of product owners, UX designers and product managers
- Headed up software development until CTO was hired (6 months)
- Designed, developed and optimized mobile apps, web app, IP camera (with industrial designer partner), SaaS cloud platform
- B2C e-commerce web shop design and development, B2B partner integrations into the platform
- Won IFA preview award 2017 for "most innovative product"
Director Consulting and GM Latin America
BT Telconsult
- Acquired and delivered consultancy projects in the telecommunications sector with focus on Latin America market
- Worked with incumbent telecom operators as well as financial investors and new market entries
- Delivered product and tech expertise in consulting projects (IPTV, product portfolio optimisation, platform design)
- Led the business processes practice
VP Product and Marketing
Deutsche Telekom - Click and Buy Group
- Established and led agile product and development teams combined with product marketing
- Scaled a mature payment platform and e-wallet both technically and commercially; the platform was used by more than 15,000 merchants (incl. iTunes) and 10 million consumers globally
- Technical integration of Clickandbuy into the Deutsche Telekom "MyWallet", a SIM-card based secure mobile wallet
- Developed and managed mobile app, web app, platform architecture with APIs, payment gateway, cloud architecture
Director Products & Services
Telefónica Group
- Established and led a product team to build up a mobile network operator in Germany (new market entry)
- Launched a complete mobile product portfolio: Voice, Data, Content Portal, Handsets and SIM cards in just 6 months
- Responsible for all technical and commercial product aspects from product engineering to product marketing
- Later launched the brand "Telefónica" in the German market along with a full portfolio of internet service provider products
Director Products
dtms AG
- Lead a team of product managers, sales engineers and product marketing
- Created mobile payment, mobile web applications and directory services to integrate with 3rd party content services and applications
Summary
Guided by empathy and a getting things done attitude. I love to work with open-minded, high-energy teams. Putting user experience first I help teams to create digital products and platforms advancing from prototypes to product-market-fit and scaling.
Skills
- Product Strategy, Design And Execution
- Product Innovation
- User Experience Strategy
- Product Management And Coaching
- Project Management
- Service Design
- Behavioral Design
- E-commerce
- Internet Platforms & Marketplaces
- Fintech And Payments
- Iot / Data
- Telecommunications
Languages
German
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedEducation
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MBA · MBA
Certifications & licenses
Behavioral Design
Product Leadership
Product Owner and Scrum Master
Service Design
UI Design
User Experience Strategy and Design
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